Wittstock railway station (Dosse)

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Wittstock (Dosse)
New reception building (2013), before renovation.
New reception building (2013), before renovation.
Data
Location in the network former crossing station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2, previously 4
abbreviation WWK
IBNR 8010384
opening May 31, 1885
Profile on Bahnhof.de Wittstock__Dosse_
location
City / municipality Wittstock / Dosse
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 9 '38 "  N , 12 ° 28' 44"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 9 '38 "  N , 12 ° 28' 44"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Brandenburg
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The Wittstock (Dosse) railway station is the station of the city of Wittstock / Dosse in northern Brandenburg. It used to be a local railway junction at the intersection of the Wittenberge – Buschhof lines (and further across the border to Neustrelitz) and Kremmen – Meyenburg with its own depot . Today only the branches in the direction of Wittenberge or Kremmen are still in use, most of the track systems have been dismantled. The two station buildings from 1884 and 1938, a goods shed with an office building, and a number of buildings in the depot are listed.

Location and name

The station is located on route kilometer 55.5 of the Wittenberge – Buschhof railway line (counted from Wittenberge station ) or on route km 65.8 on the Kremmen – Meyenburg railway line (counted from Kremmen station ) directly south of the city center of Wittstock / Dosse in the Ostprignitz district. Ruppin . While the official spelling Wittstock / Dosse is common today for the name of the city, the Wittstock (Dosse) train station continues to be written with the name of the Dosse river in brackets. The tracks run almost in a west-east direction as an extension of the route from Wittenberge. The Kremmen – Meyenburg line turns at the edge of the station area to the south-east or north-west.

history

Prehistory and construction

The Berlin – Hamburg line, opened in 1846, ran over 30 kilometers south of Wittstock through the Prignitz. To develop the region, the Zernitz train station was laid out and a public limited company was founded, which had a road from Zernitz via Kyritz to Wittstock built by 1850. A power mail connection connected Wittstock with the train station in Zernitz.

Wittstock only got its own rail connection almost 40 years later. On August 15, 1884, the Prignitzer (Aktien-) Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft began building the railway line from Perleberg (as an extension of a line from Wittenberge opened there in 1881 ) via Pritzwalk to Wittstock, which went into operation on May 31, 1885.

In 1895, the line from Wittstock was extended to the Mecklenburg state border at Buschhof . The trains continued on the line operated by the Mecklenburg Friedrich Wilhelm Railway Company to Neustrelitz .

Wittstock as a railway junction

New station building from 1938, the old one in the background.

The Prussian State Railways opened the line from Berlin to Kremmen as early as 1893 . For the cities of Neuruppin and Wittstock to the northwest of Kremmen, this offered the possibility of a direct connection to Berlin. The private Kremmen-Neuruppin-Wittstocker railway company was founded with significant financial participation from the neighboring cities and districts, the construction was carried out by Lenz & Co. On December 16, 1898, goods traffic began and on February 1, 1899, passenger traffic on the line began. The Wittstock (Dosse) station of the Prignitzer Eisenbahn was used jointly by the trains of both companies. The station facilities have been significantly expanded.

The line from Kremmen was extended from Wittstock in 1912 via Freyenstein (opening on February 1, 1912) to Meyenburg (April 14, 1912), which led to a further expansion of the station facilities.

Between 1935 and 1938 there was a major renovation of the station facilities. New sidings went into operation on the west side of the station between the lines to Wittenberge and Meyenburg. In addition to the station building from the opening time of the line, a new, larger station building was built, which went into operation on January 18, 1938. The old building was then used for apartments.

On May 28, 1967, passenger traffic between Wittstock and Meyenburg ended. The line was shut down and dismantled a little later. In 1974 a connection with four tracks was built for a motorway construction site near Wittstock.

Development after 1990

Freight shed as part of LAGA 2019

In 1998 the federal states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania canceled travel between Wittstock and Mirow. In September 2004 the line was officially closed. Between 2003 and 2005, Wittstock station was fundamentally rebuilt as part of the work for the " Prignitz-Express " project . Track systems that are no longer required were removed, and the integration of the track in the direction of Mirow was expanded. The route in the direction of Neuruppin was closed during this time. On February 27, 2005, the line and the converted station officially went back into operation. The two signal box buildings were demolished in November / December of the same year.

The Liebenthal stop has been part of Wittstock station since 2007. In 2013 the city of Wittstock / Dosse bought the old station building and the goods shed, and two years later the new station building too.

In 2019 the State Garden Show took place in Wittstock (LAGA). On this occasion, both station buildings and the goods shed, which had been empty for a long time and were in ruins, were renovated. They are used, among other things, by tourist and medical institutions and were partly also part of the state horticultural show.

passenger traffic

Passenger traffic was always only of local importance. From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1990s, between four and six pairs of passenger trains ran in the direction of Kremmen and Mirow , one or two more pairs in the direction of Pritzwalk, and three to four pairs of trains a day in the direction of Meyenburg. Many trains ran between Wittenberge and Neustrelitz (until the end of the Second World War also on to Strasburg ) or Meyenburg and Kremmen (partly on to Berlin), after the Second World War only continuous to Velten .

In the years before the Second World War there was a continuous express train from Wittenberge to Strasburg and back. In the 1950s and early 1960s, a long-running passenger train ran from Berlin via Oranienburg , Löwenberg , Neuruppin , Wittstock, Meyenburg , Karow and Güstrow to Rostock . In the second half of the 1980s and the early 1990s, a direct train ran early on weekdays from Wittstock via Pritzwalk, Neustadt (Dosse) to Potsdam and back in the afternoon.

In 1992/94 there were brief attempts to shorten travel times with a pair of express trains Wittenberge - Wittstock - Neustrelitz. In 1994 the offer was synchronized on the three remaining branches. In the second half of the 1990s, three lines ran in Wittstock, each every two hours.

  • RB 71 Wittenberge - Wittstock (Dosse)
  • RB 72 Wittstock (Dosse) - Neustrelitz Hbf (until cancellation in 1998)
  • RB 57 Wittstock (Dosse) - Neuruppin

With the restart of the line from Neuruppin in the direction of Kremmen after several years of renovation, continuous trains ran under the line number RE 6 from Wittstock via Neuruppin and Hennigsdorf in the direction of Berlin. After the Wittstock - Neuruppin section was completely closed between 2003 and the beginning of 2005 due to renovation work, the RE 6 will be tied through to Wittenberge after it is put back into operation. Since then, the RE 6 trains have been running between Berlin and Wittenberge via Hennigsdorf, Neuruppin and Wittstock every hour, until the beginning of 2019 on the weekend on the section between Neuruppin, Wittstock and Wittenberge only every two hours. During the 2019 State Horticultural Show, the hourly service was also extended to the weekend days; after a short break in autumn 2019, this became a permanent part of the offer for the timetable change in December.

Investments

Monument protection

A number of buildings in the station area are listed. According to the district's list of monuments, this concerns the "Wittstock station, consisting of the old station building, new station reception building with goods shed and office building as well as the railway depot with locomotive shed with turntable, wagon workshop, locksmith's shop / blacksmith's shop with integrated water tower, water crane and bathhouse," it says in the list of monuments State of Brandenburg.

First station building

The old station building

Both station buildings were built on the north side of the track system. In the west is the first station building from 1885. It is a two-story, massive brick building with a gable roof and eight axes , four of which have a risalit on the platform side. Older photos show a tower on the east side of the building that no longer exists. After 1990, it stood empty for years until the city bought it and renovated it in 2013. In 2019, a medical care center moved into the building.

Second reception building

The second station building, opened in 1938, is to the east of the first, set back from the platform. It is a monumental, two-story, 19-axis brick building with a hipped roof . It was used for railroad purposes until after 1990 and since then has also stood empty for a long time until it was bought by the city. It has been used by the city's tourist information office since 2019. At the beginning of 2020, a position for citizen advice is to move into the station building.

Goods shed and office building

Goods shed with office building before renovation (2013)

While most of the goods loading facilities were on the south side of the tracks, there is a goods shed on the north side of the station east of the reception building under monument protection. It is a single-storey half-timbered and brick building with a fieldstone base and gable roof, as the new station building dates from 1936–1938. The office building, which was also built around this time, forms a western extension to the shed. After a long period of vacancy, the goods shed was acquired by the city in 2013, which renovated it. It was part of the exhibition space at the State Garden Show 2019.

Depot

Building in the depot (2013)

The facilities of the former railway depot are located on the southern side of the station facing away from the city, east of the passenger transport facilities. They have not been used for rail purposes since the end of 1997. A number of structures in the former depot are listed. This includes a water tower, a massive structure made of concrete and bricks. The list of monuments dates the water tower to 1952; according to other sources, only the existing tower was expanded at that time. The locomotive shed (a quarter circle) dates from 1885 and was expanded around 1900. It includes a turntable and a water crane. The turntable with a usable length of 12.8 meters dates from 1936 and replaced a smaller predecessor with a usable length of 6 meters from 1896. Two workshop buildings date from 1885 with extensions around 1900 and the first third of the 20th century. Century. Another listed building is a bath and toilet house, which is dated to the period between 1890 and 1895.

The locomotive shed was bought in 2019 by the Swiss Krono company, which operates a wood processing factory in neighboring Liebenthal . The former depot is to be converted into a creative and exhibition center. The city wants to use the locksmith's shop and the water tower for a youth center.

Tracks and platforms

Eastern platform. Background: western platform and the two reception buildings

Until the 1990s, the station had two island platforms with four platform edges, which were connected via a tunnel to the station building to the north of the tracks. To the south of the platform tracks were tracks for goods traffic and a loading lane as well as the facilities of the depot, another track connected the old goods shed on the north side of the facilities. The routes to Kremmen and Buschhof in the east and Wittenberge and Meyenburg in the west branched off in the immediate vicinity of the station. There were sidings between the last two lines, some of which are still connected today.

After the renovation around the year 2000, the platform has two platforms arranged lengthways to each other. The trains to Berlin usually stop at the west (in front of the old station building), and those to Wittenberge at the east (in front of the goods shed). There is a bypass track there so that passenger trains can cross here. Another continuous track south of the platforms enables freight trains to cross.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Wittstock (Dosse)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn, Classicist station buildings in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB), p. 34/35
  2. ^ Official Journal of the Government in Potsdam, 1850, page 23.
  3. ^ A b Erich Preuß : Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 90
  4. ^ Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 64.
  5. ^ Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 78.
  6. ^ Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 68.
  7. ^ A b Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 96.
  8. ^ Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 72.
  9. ^ Federal Railway Authority, list of the lines in the state of Brandenburg that have been closed since 1994.
  10. ↑ a b c d e Torsten Pridöhl, information board on site
  11. ^ A b Wittstock buys the train station and tool shed . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, November 21, 2013, online .
  12. ↑ Wittstock wants to expand the station . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, March 27, 2018, online .
  13. ↑ a b Tourist Information is now in the train station . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, March 8, 2019, online
  14. ↑ various course books
  15. ↑ Official List of Monuments Ostprignitz-Ruppin. (As of December 31, 2018), online.
  16. ↑ a b c d e f g Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  17. ↑ Rush of visitors in the medical center at the train station . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, November 6, 2019, online .
  18. ↑ Citizens advice should switch from the district to the city . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, July 22, 2019, online .
  19. ↑ Swiss Krono expands to Wittstock . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, April 10, 2019, online .
  20. ^ RBD Schwerin, track plan of Wittstock station (Dosse), around 1980.